08 Jun Tiger gets territorial in SA
The country’s biggest food producer is turning its attention to the local market to regain ground it lost to competitors.
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07 Jun SA supermarkets aren’t ‘robbing us blind’
A recent article in Daily Maverick that blames the “rampant profiteering of big food retailers” for child malnutrition argues from false premises to a mistaken conclusion. Supermarkets aren’t the bogeymen that keep the poor mired in poverty and hunger, writes Ivo Vegter, another Daily Maverick opinionista.
17 May Starbucks’ Schultz shares his ‘Ubuntu’ story
Starbucks founder Howard Schultz recently presented a stirring commencement speach at Arizona State University. Raised in poverty and driven by a higher purpose to create his massive multinational which now employs 300 000 people, Schultz told the story of his South African Ubuntu discovery, encouraging the graduates of the US’s biggest university to apply its lesson in their own lives.
17 May The Raindrop Cake arrives!
A calorie-free, vegan ‘raindrop cake’ is taking London by storm. The new cult pudding looks like a breast implant, wobbling on a wooden plank.
17 May Noakes ‘energised, wrathful’ as HPCSA goes after him again!
The Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) has appealed the comprehensive not guilty verdict for Prof Tim Noakes in its tedious and persecutary Tweeting 'trial'.
His lawyers are furious and up for the fight ahead. Noakes is “strangely elated”. He says that it will “allow the exposure of much about which the South African public would otherwise have remained ignorant”.
17 May Unilever hails new technology to recycle sachets
Unilever has developed ‘a groundbreaking new technology’ that will enable the food industry to recycle used multi-layer sachets.
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17 May Thoughts on FMCG marketing today
Leading FMCG companies (or CPG as they're called in the US) are regarded as 'universities of marketing', drawing the brightest and most ambitious graduates. But is the fast-changing FMCG world still so attractive? Here's some insightful commentary by Michael Bollinger, president, Smith Brothers Agency...
16 May Mars joins Nestlé, Lindt and Ferrero in calorie reduction goal
Mars-Wrigley, Nestlé USA, Ferrero, Lindt, and Ferrara Candy have jointly committed that half of their individually wrapped products will be 200 calories or less by 2022, with calorie labelling on the front of packaging.
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16 May Astral Foods feels pain from new brine regulations
SA’s poultry producers have had their feathers plucked from the cheap bone-in chicken imports from the US and Europe, and the sustained drought across the country.
15 May Stakes rise in SA’s upmarket bakery sector
Those with a sweet tooth will have noticed that, alongside the coffee culture boom, the world of cakes and croissants has become big business. In March, the French brand, Paul Bakery, opened in Melrose Arch, throwing down the gauntlet to local incumbents, and here lies...
09 May Exciting speaker line-up taking shape for SAAFoST Congress 2017
SAAFoST’s September Congress in Cape Town is taking shape with a number of top calibre local and international speakers confirmed...
09 May Food Explorer #14: A South African food scientist finds fabulous food in France
Lisa Ronquest is one of South Africa's top young food scientists, now transferred to the Netherlands in a global food R&D role for Mars. She's been sharing her European impressions, insights and travels with FOODStuff SA readers in a regular blog, and we're proud here to publish her 13th episode. This time, Lisa explores cider, wine and pastry in France.
08 May Ten years after the crisis, what is happening to the world’s bees?
Ten years ago, beekeepers in the US raised the alarm that thousands of their hives were mysteriously empty of bees. What followed was global concern over a new phenomenon: Colony Collapse Disorder.
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08 May Fry’s expands into a new convenience food sector
Fry's Family Food, SA's leading plant-based food producer based in Durban, is moving out of its traditional vegetarian convenience food arena.
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08 May Rolling out the next stage of the protein trend: protein balls
How do brands continue to capitalise on demand for protein-rich foods while still captivating consumer attention? Here are some examples out of Europe...
08 May US: Big Food’s marketing talent is fleeing
Barry Calpino signed up at Mondelez in 2015 to create an entirely new snack brand he named Véa, a recognition by the company that there are only so many flavours of Oreo cookies and boxes of Ritz crackers people are going to buy. But now he's quit....
08 May Pioneer stays mum on nixed deal
There's been much speculation about the details of a potential massive deal that did not materialise for Pioneer Foods after SA’s credit rating was downgraded.
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08 May Hpp, hpp, high pressure processing comes to SA!
A state-of-the-art high-pressure processing/pasteurisation ‘tollgate’ has opened in Midrand. What’s all the excitement about? HPP technology, long and slow to take off, has become a game-changer for the food and beverage industry and is gaining rapid momentum worldwide.
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07 May 14 fascinating disruptive food-tech startups in Israel
Disruptive food technology is all about piling consumers' plates with safer, cheaper, fresher, more nutritious and environmentally-friendly edibles. Israel is up there with Silicon Valley in developing some fascinating technologies...
07 May Could taking vitamins in huge doses produce a health miracle after all?
For decades, some people have embraced the idea that there might be major health benefits from taking vitamins in quantities well beyond the recommended daily requirement. The concept was very popular for a while in the media, but research findings to the contrary...
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